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Title Composition in the age of austerity / edited by Nancy Welch, Tony Scott.

Publication Info. Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "How neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. How neoliberal political economy dictates direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods, and the ways of assessing writing also shapes directions of scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Our Trojan horse : outcomes assessment and the resurrection of competency-based education / Chris W. Gallagher -- Confessions of an assessment fellow / Deborah Mutnick -- First-year composition course redesigns : pedagogical innovation or solution to the "cost disease"? / Emily J. Isaacs -- Who's coming to the composition classroom : K-12 writing in and outside of common core state standards / Marcelle M. Haddix and Brandi Williams -- National writing project in the age of austerity / Tom Fox and Elyse Eidman-Aadahl -- Occupy basic writing : pedagogy in the wake of austerity / Susan Naomi Bernstein -- Austerity behind bars : the "cost" of prison writing programs / Tobi Jacobi -- Buskerfest : the struggle for space in public rhetorical education / Mary Ann Cain -- First-year writing and the angels of austerity : a re-domesticated drama / Nancy Welch -- What happens when ideological narratives lose their force? / Jeanne Gunner -- Composition's dead / Ann Larson -- Austerity, contingency, and administrative bloat : writing programs in an age of feast and famine / Eileen Schell -- Beyond marketability : locating teacher agency in the neoliberal university / Shari Stenberg -- Animated by the entrepreneurial spirit : austerity, dispossession, and composition's last living act / Tony Scott -- Afterword : Hacking the body politic / Lil Brannon.
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Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Political aspects -- United States.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)
United States.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
REFERENCE / Writing Skills.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Welch, Nancy, 1963- editor.
Scott, Tony, 1968- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Composition in the age of austerity 9781607324447 (DLC) 2016003040 (OCoLC)910334504
ISBN 9781607324454 (electronic book)
1607324458 (electronic book)
9781607324447
160732444X